Postdoc

Dr. Natalia Rodriguez

Research Area

Dr. Natalia Rodriguez has been working as a postdoc in COMI since October 2023. Her work is framed within the EU project BIOservicES, which aims to understand the connection between soil organisms and the delivery of multiple soil ecosystem functions and services at different scales. Natalia is focused on how different management intensities and land uses affect soil microbial communities.

CV

2024

Best PhD in Soil Sciences award, Spanish Society of Soil Science (SECS)

2023

PhD Applied Environmental Sciences. University of Almeria (Spain)

2018

Specialization Course on Bioinformatics Analysis. University of Pablo de Olavide (Spain)

2018

Master of Environmental, Industrial and Food Biotechnology. University of Pablo de Olavide (Spain)

2015

Bachelor of Biology. University of Sevilla (Spain)

Publications

Biol. Fertil. Soils 62, 641–648 (2026)

Geydirici, I. ; Martinez-Cuesta, R. ; Bibinger, S. ; Espíndola-Hernández, P. ; Gschwendtner, S. ; Rodríguez-Berbel, N. ; Schulz, S. ; Schloter, M.

Digging deeper into soil metagenomics: Opportunities and limitations for studying the genomic potential of soil bacteria and archaea.
Sci. Total Environ. 954:176302 (2024)

Soria, R. ; Ortega, R. ; Valiente, N. ; Rodríguez-Berbel, N. ; Lucas-Borja, M.E. ; Miralles, I.

Monitoring of indicators and bacterial succession in organic-amended technosols for the restoration of semiarid ecosystems.